The White House Residential Aged Care Hostel

Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Providing a high level of care for residents, outdoor spaces provide a private environment for those needing the best of care.

This high level care facility is designed around a central courtyard and recreational outdoor space. Providing a high level of care for residents, the outdoor spaces provide a private environment for those needing the best of care.

The large
central space is the primary outdoor area and links to a circuit around the perimetre of the site. The landscape includes gazebos, circuit
walking paths, private seating areas, sub-tropical
species selection and
private individual gardens for
residents as well as water features and turf areas.

There are also raised planter beds to give residents the opportunity to participate in creating vegetable gardens as part of outdoor activities.

Any successful landscape design carefully incorporates
access and mobility issues that are important to the end
user in this case - the elderly.